Take 76 has very wide/good usage but .. 76 includes a minor degredation in clusterxl during upgrade (due to LS added in, for a period of time there is no connectivty from standby member). As we are being very careful on what becomes GA, it is not planned to be GA.

Strange, I'm not able to add a 1550 Appliance in LSM/SmartProvisioning. The newly created LSM Profile in SmartConsole do not appear in the Security Profile Drop Down of "new Small Office Appliance Gateway" Wizard. And worse, LSMcli don't know the 1500er Appliances. Session is published MDS_Customer stop/start Latest SmartConsole 993000036 I already opened a SR, but still waiting for an answer.

FYI. Last week, I downloaded and applied TAKE 107 for our Management and SmartEvent server. However, TAKE 107 apparently is not available for the Gateway when I use CPUSE to add "Check_Point_R80_30_JUMBO_HF_Bundle_T107_sk153152_Security_Gateway_and_Standalone_2_6_18_FULL.tgz" from the Add HotFixes from the Cloud ("No package was found. Enter full and correct package name"). I put in a SR and they provided a SFTP to get TAKE 108 for the Gateways. But engineer still has not provided corresponding TAKE 108 for Management. Also have not received any explanation as to what is going on..... Odd that TAKE 107 is still listed on sk153152.

Thanks you @G_W_Albrecht for bringing this up.
I'd like to follow up on about your comment after reading the thread mentioned above, the main issue is that 1500 device status on smart console shows:
"Error: IPS is not responding. verify that IPS is installed on the gateway" Although status on the gateway shows IPS is fully functional and updated.
Basically the gateway is up to date with latest IPS protections and IPS blade is fully functioning.
The message is a result of sync issue between the 1500 device and management and the report presented is wrong. Sync issue is under investigation and we will update accordingly, meanwhile in case this message is presented it is recommended to check IPS status on the gateway web-UI or CLI.